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Upcoming Webcasts |
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Thursday, June 5th 2008 12:00pm EDT (-5hrs GMT) |
Store Planning & Clustering: How the Right Approach Helps You Reach More Customers. |
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“Learn how leading retailers are leveraging store clustering to win more customers and improve market share.”
- In this session, you will gain understanding of store planning and clustering methods used by successful retailers. Learn how advanced processes and methods are being applied to improve store performance. Understand how automation in store planning and clustering supports Advanced Planning.
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Webcast Replays |
Integrating Planning & Budgeting - A New Way of Thinking |
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Despite increasing efforts by growing numbers of companies to improve their business planning processes, most organizations continue to suffer breakdowns in the planning and budgeting processes that significantly affect their capacity to execute strategy and inhibit them from attaining maximum financial performance. View this webcast featuring Palladium’s planning and budgeting practice leader, Philip Peck, to examine the current state of planning and explore a "new way of thinking" regarding planning & budgeting.
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Fortifying the Three Pillars of Successful Store Operations Planning |
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View this educational webinar hosted by STORES Magazine to hear how leading retailers are tying their overall corporate strategy into plans that make sense at the store level in order to optimize and monitor performance in every location. Discover how they are supporting the unique requirements of store operations planning, while at the same time eliminating renegade spreadsheets that cause inefficiencies and inaccuracies. And by integrating these processes on a common and flexible platform, store operations plans are enabled to seamlessly flow into other retail plans.
In addition, the webinar shares retail benchmark data that drills into what works best within the labor planning "pillar". Statistical evidence is presented that answers questions such as: How are plans being monitored and revised, and why? Who owns the plan, and who participates in its creation? What systems are being used to support store labor planning, and how do they integrate with other plans? For more information go to STORES Magazine at
http://www.iian.ibeam.com/events/nrfe001/23841/index.jsp?adid=PalladiumEmail |
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Innovation and Strategic Risk - A live interview with author Adrian Slywotzky |
| View this interview featuring Adrian Slywotzky, Managing Director of Oliver Wyman Consulting and author of The Upside: 7 Strategies for Turning Big Threats into Growth Breakthroughs! Mr. Slywotzky will share his innovative approach in turning the worst possible business risks into enormous upside potential. |
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Eliminate "Rogue" Planning Spreadsheets from Your Hyperion Environment |
| View this special webcast to hear how Pace™, a solution developed by Palladium and sponsored by Hyperion, extends organizations’ Hyperion platform investment and delivers true Integrated Business Planning. Learn how Pace provides a sophisticated engine for interactive modeling of unique and complex planning processes, delivered through a familiar Excel interface. |
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Driving Agency Performance and Effectiveness through the Alignment of Strategic Initiatives |
| As you embark on planning for Fiscal Year 2008, a clear roadmap of how projects, programs and initiatives drive agency strategy is more important than ever. With increased congressional oversight and 18 months left before an administration change, now is the time to ensure that strategy execution, alignment of programs, and feedback and follow-through are all in place and that goals, processes, and key initiatives are well articulated, communicated and managed. This webcast discusses key processes and governance techniques that will make the biggest impact to your strategy as you inventory, evaluate, align and manage strategy initiatives underway in your organization. |
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Implementing Hyperion System 9 at Columbia College |
| This webcast featured Columbia College Chicago (CCC) which is the largest arts and media college in the nation with nearly 11,000 undergraduate and 750 graduate students. Growing at an unprecedented rate over the past 5 years, CCC needed improved insight into their growth, including how their growth was impacting the faculty and the student experience. CCC needed to know if they were offering the right amount of the right courses. However, with an outdated BI tool and without an updated BI/BPM roadmap, data was locked away in the minds of a few power users. Originally presented at Hyperion Solutions 2007, hear how CCC implemented Hyperion System 9 to drive results, including centralized data, analysis from days to seconds, reports at the click of a button and delivery of critical information to all users. Find out why one Executive Director says "This application will always be open on my desktop!" |
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HFM Implementation Success: Metavante Corporation |
| This webcast featured Deb Coulombe (Director, Financial Analysis and Support) and Rose Glazewski (CPA, Project Leader, Financial Analysis and Support) of Metavante Corporation, which delivers banking and payments technologies to over 8,600 financial services firms and businesses worldwide. Hear how Metavante quickly implemented Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) by leveraging their existing Essbase outline and maintaining a majority of their reporting in Essbase. Learn how the implementation was completed through the Web to minimize impact on the user community. Plus, hear lessons learned and tips and tricks, including 'cube swap'! |
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How effectively does your organization manage strategy to achieve "breakthrough" business results? |
This webcast featured Palladium's Vice President of Assessments, Ed Shapiro and Vice President of Research, Randy Russell. Learn how leading organizations have leveraged SFO-A best practices to drive "breakthrough" business results from financial performance, to risk, organizational and operational improvements.
Topics Covered
- New 2007 benchmarking results of nearly 350 organizations
- The five critical principles for effective strategy management
- Analysis of strategy management best practices
- Distinguishing characteristics of "breakthrough" results organizations
- Creating competitive advantage by assessing your organization
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Linking Planning Processes to Strategy Execution: Best Practices |
An organization's planning processes—strategic through operational planning—are critical to executing strategy. The best performing companies establish an integrated planning process built on seven core characteristics, where clear linkage points exist between strategic and operational planning. Originally presented at Hyperion Solutions 2007 in Orlando, this webcast reviews these characteristics and linkages and illustrates how to move to a planning process that drives business value.
- Learn about the performance gap and why it's so difficult to overcome
- See how a well-designed planning and performance management process closes that gap by improving visibility, focus, and responsiveness
- Plus, Philip Peck, our speaker, provides best practice insights in planning, reporting, and analysis illustrated through a series of case studies
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Leveraging Information Assets to Sustain Strategy Execution |
Learn the key components and processes that comprise a robust Analytic Information Architecture, and how organizations can better leverage their information assets to help sustain the execution of their business strategy. Hear how to overcome the four most common barriers to achieving an effective analytic platform:
- Lack of a scalable information strategy
- Disjointed patchwork of analytic tools and capabilities
- Information silos across the organization
- Lack of data integration across functional applications
Hear why many organizations struggle to develop a technology architecture that enables core processes and supports the analytic needs of the enterprise. Learn how leading organizations are taking an enterprise view of their information assets and the tools that they provide decision-makers. The benefits to organizations that do this successfully are alignment of IT resources, accuracy of decision-making information and efficiency of information management. |
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Success Story: Planning for Growth at Dunkin’ Brands |
This webcast featured Susan Valente, Director of Finance for Dunkin Brands' and how the company successfully implemented a new financial planning, budgeting and reporting system to help grow the business through aggressive expansion. Hear how Dunkin Brands:
- Automated the data compilation that populates P&L statements, cash flow statements and balance sheets
- Eliminated the time-consuming and inaccurate reliance on Excel for financial analysis
- Increased the speed and accessibility of financial reports to management
- Enabled more time for high-value financial analysis by automating the data compilation process
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Initiative Management at Bristol Myers Squibb |
This webcast focused on Initiative Management, featuring Valerie Gladu Vice President of Compliance, Strategy and Innovation at Bristol Myers Squibb. Ms. Gladu discusses the approach taken to better drive the allocation of scarce resources to Bristol Myers’s most strategically impacting initiatives, providing clearer alignment between initiatives and strategy and clarification in accountability for implementing initiatives.
Find out how Bristol Myers embarked on an initiative management process to:
- Assess the current state of initiative management at BMS Canada in view of our strategy
- Develop a clear and consistent definition of a strategic initiatives
- Develop a process to ensure alignment between initiatives and strategy
- Develop a process/policy to connect scarce resource allocation with strategy by more effective rationalization and prioritization of initiatives
- Improve the process by which new initiatives are identified, approved, funded, and executed Enhance the initiative management process to improve accountability and realization of project/initiative benefits
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Planning and Budgeting |
| Executing an integrated approach to business planning and budgeting is critical to improving enterprise performance. Learn how organizations are transitioning from current systems to an integrated approach and identifying key connections between strategic planning and budgeting processes. |
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Master Data Management at State Street Corporation |
Learn how State Street they successfully implemented a Master Data Management (MDM) foundation within their analytical platform to provide a centralized point of maintenance for hierarchy management.
State Street reviews the challenges they faced due to inconsistent chart of account structures including process control issues, legacy system maintenance and retirement issues, disparate hierarchy structures, "black box business processes" and little to no traceability. Plus, hear how State Street utilized a phased approach to implementing MDM while undergoing a multiyear project to replace their legacy financial system platform. Leveraging Hyperion MDM, State Street also shares key lessons learned during the implementation, including early architectural focus on hierarchy integration, the importance of a process to validate assumptions and the need for early data validation. |
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Developing Effective Measures to Drive Business Results |
| Creating measures is second nature to most managers. In fact, measures are so easy to create that most organization have more measures than they know what to do with. The challenge comes in ensuring the measures your organization has are telling you what you really need to know to effectively manage performance. During this webcast Ed Barrows, Principal and Director of the Balanced Scorecard Advisory Program discusses three topics associated with measures. Specifically he covers: Understanding how to develop good measures; Differentiating between strategic and operational measures; Using measures to create an environment of learning versus control If your organization struggles at all with measurement specifically, you will benefit from listening in to this webcast. |
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Zebra Technologies Improves Planning Processes |
| Join us for an exclusive webcast and learn how Zebra Technologies implemented and integrated a new planning system. Previously a top breakout session at Hyperion Solutions 2006, Zebra’s Director of Corporate Services, Marc Ruff, discusses steps they took to improve their planning process. Find out how Zebra moved from an Excel and Access based Demand Planning and P&L Planning and Budgeting process to a web-based solution. Hear the initial business challenges, including the need to improve planning processes and corporate requirement needs, such as Sales and Operations Forecasting, Headcount and Salary planning, Capital planning, Cost Center planning and others. This session provides lessons learned, as well as best practices utilized to deliver greater access to data, improve individual involvement in planning and budgeting processes and significantly reduce process time. |
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Getting Things Done: The Latest Thinking on Executing Strategy Using the Balanced Scorecard |
| The record of good strategy execution is poor. A recent study noted that 7 out of 8 companies in a global sample of 1,854 large corporations failed to achieve profitable growth, though more than 90% had detailed strategic plans with much higher targets. Our own work with clients notes the existence of a persistent gap between the strategic goals organizations set for themselves and the results they achieve. Since its creation, the Balanced Scorecard has become the pre-eminent business tool for describing and managing an organization’s strategy. Many organizations have overcome the odds and achieved significant success. How did this happen? Peter LaCasse outlines the three key things every organization must do if they are to make strategy execution a key organizational capability. |
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Best Practices in Hyperion Financial Management Implementation |
| Join us for an exclusive webcast on Best Practices in HFM. Previously a top breakout session at Hyperion Solutions 2006, the presenters provide examples of what they have done to applications to help administrative maintenance and create metadata levels that help with rules writing and reporting writing. Some examples the presenters will share include using Account Rollforwards to isolate account activity, User Defined Fields to tie Cash Flow Reporting to the Balance Sheet, and others. Furthermore, the presenters walk you through how to set up the application to make it more intelligent from a metadata and maintenance perspective. This includes all metadata and data components that are utilized to perform all types of accounting transactions. They will explain how intelligent naming conventions can allow for easier maintenance and more dynamic rules writing and how the proper use of user defined fields can help fully automate statutory, management and cash flow reporting. These design considerations can also help in the creation and maintenance of member lists, web forms and reports. You can use these best practices to aid in the development of administrator and user guides to help explain metadata structures and business rules. |
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Office of Strategic Management |
| Join our Director of Research, Randy Russell as he discusses the 27 best practices that enable organizations to create and sustain results. Randy will also be discussing the discipline, core competencies, roles & responsibilities of strategic management and the role and Office of Strategic Management plays in this process. |
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Executing an Analytics Based Strategy |
| Developing and implementing an analytics program can play a vital role in effectively executing your strategy. However, most companies today have yet to master the relationship between traditional metrics and the ability to predict behavior, profitability and ultimately outperform the market based on analytical information. |
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Aligning the Organization, by Dr. David P. Norton |
| For the first time Dr. Norton will be discussing a framework to help organizations create value from synergy by creating internal alignment of corporate, business units, support units and external parties. |
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Live Discussion with Dr. Ulrich |
| Dr. Ulrich describes how to build a specific action plan to respond to future requirements of the HR function. Dr. Ulrich shares the new criteria that will identify how HR practice, functions, and professionals must change to deliver value to their organizations. |
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